These are all excellent guides for developing your activities. They provide a variety of tips and examples for activity conversion as well as useful guidelines for determining whether your activity is inquiry-based. I will be using this information in my final assessment of the inquiry elements of your activity.
Your performance on the safety pre-test indicates that you have a pretty good background in basic lab safety. Our in-class discussions will summarize these issues and discuss in more detail those that are less familiar to you.
Here's a newspaper article that should scare you (and for good reason):
Now that I have your attention, here are some written resources to aid you in becoming a safe science teacher.
One of the best safety resources out there is FLINN Scientific. Their catalog is a great reference to have on your shelf. They have an excellent collection of Material Safety Data Sheets online as well.
To show you how complex safety rules can be, here is a copy of the California state teacher safety manual (all 191 pages). Obviously I don't expect you, or anyone else, to sit down and read this, but it can be used as a reference. I will point out, however, that all CA teachers were required to sign a statement that they read this carefully and understood everything in it. Oh dear.
Week 6
Cookbook-to-Inquiry articles
This week's inquiry presentation:
These are all excellent guides for developing your activities. They provide a variety of tips and examples for activity conversion as well as useful guidelines for determining whether your activity is inquiry-based. I will be using this information in my final assessment of the inquiry elements of your activity.
General Safety Resources
This week's presentation on general science classroom safety:
Your performance on the safety pre-test indicates that you have a pretty good background in basic lab safety. Our in-class discussions will summarize these issues and discuss in more detail those that are less familiar to you.
Here's a newspaper article that should scare you (and for good reason):
Now that I have your attention, here are some written resources to aid you in becoming a safe science teacher.
One of the best safety resources out there is FLINN Scientific. Their catalog is a great reference to have on your shelf. They have an excellent collection of Material Safety Data Sheets online as well.
This is a good general safety guide:
These articles have extensive lists of classroom safety rules that are worth reviewing:
To show you how complex safety rules can be, here is a copy of the California state teacher safety manual (all 191 pages). Obviously I don't expect you, or anyone else, to sit down and read this, but it can be used as a reference. I will point out, however, that all CA teachers were required to sign a statement that they read this carefully and understood everything in it. Oh dear.